CVE-2017-9060 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 1 Jun 2017 Updated 5 Aug 2024

Local guest users can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in QEMU's virtio-gpu implementation.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2017-9060?

CVE-2017-9060 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qemu Qemu, published on 1 Jun 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_set_scanout function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of "VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT:" commands.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9060?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9060?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-9060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9060, GHSA-3j3x-mggm-xh6q.